antipathy

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: an=tip=a=thy

CIDE DICTIONARY

antipathy, n. [L. antipathia, Gr. ; against + to suffer. Cf. F. antipathie. See Pathos.].

•  Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.  [1913 Webster]

  "Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided."  [1913 Webster]
•  Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.  [1913 Webster]

  " Antipathy is opposed to sympathy. It is followed by to, against, or between; also sometimes by for."  [1913 Webster]

  "A habit is generated of thinking that a natural antipathy exists between hope and reason."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Hatred; aversion; dislike; disgust; distaste; enmity; ill will; repugnance; contrariety; opposition. See Dislike.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

antipathy, n. (pl. -ies) (often foll. by to, for, between) a strong or deep-seated aversion or dislike.

Etymology

F antipathie or L antipathia f. Gk antipatheia f. antipathes opposed in feeling (as ANTI-, pathos -eos feeling)

DEVIL DICTIONARY

antipathy

n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.

THESAURUS

antipathy

Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, abomination, allergy, anathema, animosity, animus, antagonism, anti-Semitism, antithesis, averseness, aversion, avoidance, backlash, backwardness, bad blood, belligerence, bigotry, clash, clashing, cold sweat, collision, competition, conflict, confrontation, confutation, contention, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety, contrariness, contrast, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, creeping flesh, cross-purposes, crotchetiness, cursoriness, despitefulness, detestation, disaccord, disagreement, discrepancy, disgust, disinclination, dislike, disobedience, disrelish, dissension, dissent, distaste, enmity, escape, eschewal, evasion, execration, foot-dragging, fractiousness, friction, grudging consent, grudgingness, hate, hatred, horror, hostility, inconsistency, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, inimicalness, interference, intractableness, kick, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, loathing, malevolence, malice, malignity, misandry, misanthropy, misogyny, mortal horror, mutinousness, nausea, negativeness, nolition, nonconformity, noncooperation, obstinacy, odium, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, peeve, perfunctoriness, perverseness, perversity, pet peeve, phobia, polarity, quarrelsomeness, race hatred, racism, rancor, reaction, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recoil, refractoriness, refusal, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repellency, repercussion, repugnance, repulsion, resistance, revolt, rivalry, showdown, shuddering, slowness, spite, spitefulness, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, swimming upstream, uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, unwillingness, vials of hate, vials of wrath, vying, xenophobia

ROGET THESAURUS

antipathy

Dislike

N dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination, displacency, reluctance, backwardness, repugnance, disgust, queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing, averseness, aversation, aversion, abomination, antipathy, abhorrence, horror, mortal antipathy, rooted antipathy, mortal horror, rooted horror, hatred, detestation, hate, animosity, hydrophobia, canine madness, byssa, xenophobia, sickener, gall and wormwood, shuddering, cold sweat, disliking, averse from, loathe, loathe to, loth, adverse, shy of, sick of, out of conceit with, disinclined, heartsick, dogsick, queasy, disliked, uncared for, unpopular, out of favor, repulsive, repugnant, repellant, abhorrent, insufferable, fulsome, nauseous, loathsome, loathful, offensive, disgusting, disagreeable c, (painful), usque ad nauseam, Int, faugh!, foh!, ugh!, non libet.

Hate

N hate, hatred, vials of hate, disaffection, disfavor, alienation, estrangement, coolness, enmity, animosity, umbrage, pique, grudge, dudgeon, spleen bitterness, bitterness of feeling, ill blood, bad blood, acrimony, malice, implacability, repugnance, misanthropy, demonophobia, gynephobia, negrophobia, odium, unpopularity, detestation, antipathy, object of hatred, object of execration, abomination, aversion, b=ete noire, enemy, bitter pill, source of annoyance, hating, abhorrent, averse from, set against, bitter, implacable, unloved, unbeloved, unlamented, undeplored, unmourned, uncared for, unendeared, un-valued, disliked, crossed in love, forsaken, rejected, lovelorn, jilted, obnoxious, hateful, odious, abominable, repulsive, offensive, shocking, disgusting, reprehensible, invidious, spiteful, malicious, insulting, irritating, provoking, at daggers drawn, not on speaking terms, at loggerheads, no love lost between.